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What apps or programs do you use alongside your NLE to speed up your work?

WinDirStat Ninite HandBrake GrandPerspective Cyberduck
  1. WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    WinDirStat (Windows) or GrandPerspective (macOS) - Awesome tools for visualizing what is taking up all your space.

    #Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #Hard Drive Tools 332 social mentions

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    Ninite is the easiest way to install software.
    Ninite - A tool that automates downloading and installing a ton of tools and utilities for Windows.

    #Windows Tools #Package Manager #SSH 447 social mentions

  3. HandBrake allows users to easily convert video files into a wide variety of different formats.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Handbrake - Easiest, quickest way to make H.264s that consistently look good. I never make H.264 straight out of the NLE any more. Even pooping out an DNx from Avid and feeding it into Handbrake is a smidge faster than going direct to DNx from Avid, plus I can use the CQ mode to maintain visual fidelity without having to fiddle with bitrates.

    #Video #Video Converter #File Converter 568 social mentions

  4. GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac that graphically shows the disk usage...
    WinDirStat (Windows) or GrandPerspective (macOS) - Awesome tools for visualizing what is taking up all your space.

    #Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #OS & Utilities 117 social mentions

  5. A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Cyberduck - Superb tool for uploading and downloading to FTPs, Amazon S3, Google Drive, and many, many others.

    #File Transfer #FTP Client #Project Management 68 social mentions

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